ز ب ر

Arabic

Root

ز ب ر • (z-b-r)

1. putting pieces in place (with connotations of stonework, writing, or trimming trees)

Derived terms

• Form I: زَبَرَ (zabara, “to case with stones; to write; to prune”)
  • Verbal noun: زَبْر (zabr)
  • Active participle: زَابِر (zābir)
  • Passive participle: مَزْبُور (mazbūr)
• Form II: زَبَّرَ (zabbara, “to write; to prune”)
  • Verbal noun: تَزْبِير (tazbīr)
  • Active participle: مُزَبِّر (muzabbir)
  • Passive participle: مُزَبَّر (muzabbar)
• Form IV: أَزْبَرَ (ʔazbara, “to become large in body”)
  • Verbal noun: إِزْبَار (ʔizbār)
  • Active participle: مُزْبِر (muzbir)
• Form VII: اِنْزَبَرَ (inzabara, “to be pruned”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْزِبَار (inzibār)
  • Active participle: مُنْزَبِر (munzabir)

Nouns and adjectives

• زَبْر (zabr, “stones”)
• زَبْرَة (zabra, “extremity of a branch, what one prunes”)
• زُبْرَة (zubra, “morsel, piece; piece of iron; the upper part of the back”)
• زَبَّار (zabbār, “who prunes, pruner”)
• زَبَّارَة (zabbāra, “billhook”)
• مِزْبَر (mizbar, “billhook”)
• زَبُور (zabūr, “written composition”)
• زَبِير (zabīr, “reliable”)
• زِئْبِر (ziʔbir, “fluff, down, nap (on a garment)”)
• أَزْبَر (ʔazbar, “large in the upper part of the back”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ز ب ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 578–579
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ز ب ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 221–222
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ز ب ر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 969–970
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ز ب ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1210-1211